Poems Essays

Through out the poem the reader realises how the character is. Just by the first stanza you can tell the persona is proud, pleased by money, wants self-satisfaction and to sound sophisticated. And then, looking back in the poem some new characteristics appear: the constant repetition of “I” and “My” …

Death is life’s only certainty. At the moment when each year – each day – begins to weigh heavy importance, we are forced to circumspect not only on the aspects of death, but also life, grief, and the after-life. This essay explores the outlook of death from three poems – …

I find the description and use of imagery much more exciting when I read Night of the Scorpion rather than Vultures. Some of you might be thinking that Vultures has more description, but throughout the whole poem it doesn’t get interesting or make you want to read on, unlike in …

Grace Nicholls was born in Georgetown, Guyana in 1950 and educated at St. Stephen’s Scots School, PPI High School, and the University of Guyana. She worked as a teacher, freelance journalist and Guyanese Government employee before moving to Britain in 1977. She is regarded as the most authoritative voice among …

I think that “Nothing’s Changed” is about the troubles in Africa and the fact that the black people and white people cant learn to love each other or at least realize that they are all the same. Afrika writes about how the “black land” is nowhere near as nice as …

The poems that I am studying are ‘I am not that woman’ written by Kishwar Naheed and ‘Andif’ is written by Seitlhamo Motsapi. Andif is a poem that talks about the struggle of black people for Human rights. The way Seitlhamo Motsapi has written this poem is as if the …

“For Me from You” talks of a young Nigeria girl reflecting on the love and adoration her persistent suitor presses onto her, and the shape of her life if she accepts him. Analysis: The first stanza is the courtship phase, it shows how she see’s her relationship now, how the …

In this essay I will compare two great poems, both written by well known poets. The two poems are: “In Memory of My Mother” written by Patrick Kavanagh and the other “For My Mother – My Mother Dying Aged 87” written by Elizabeth Jennings. Both poems have a similar theme …

John Agard, born in 1949 to parents of mixed nationality came to live in Britain in 1977. Agard’s poem ‘Half Caste’ demonstrates the attitude of narrow minded people he must have met, who consider people of ‘mixed race’, to be inferior. Agard uses a bit of humour but the anger …

Both ‘I Shall Return’ and ‘Once Upon a Time’, explore the need to return, in Claude McKay’s case he wants to return home; to a happier place. Although in ‘Once Upon a Time’ Gabriel Okara wants to return to a happier time, to the person he once was. In ‘I …